Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth. 1st Edition. FIVE PAPERS BY HEINRICH HERTZ, TOGETHER PROVING THAT LIGHT AND ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES ARE THE SAME. Completing Hertz’s demonstration of the validity of Maxwell’s theory, Hertz “demonstrates that electromagnetic waves propagate, reflect, interfere and polarize just like light waves” (History of Physics: The Wenner Collection)..... More

New York: New York Times, 1936. 1st Edition. First edition of the March 7, 1936 issue of the New York Times, complete with “Certificate of Authentication” by the Historic Newspaper Archives. The certificate is #379913; it is signed and includes the seal of the archive. As the title implies, this..... More

Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1955. 1st Edition. One of the major issues in relation to Einstein’s relativity was raised in 1933 by Dayton Clarence Miller and his ‘ether drift experiment’. In one of the most interesting and problematic “reviews of special relativity, [Miller] questioned Michelson and Morley’s ‘null result’. According..... More

London: Richard and John Taylor, 1843. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF WHEATSTONE’S EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF OHM’S LAW, including a practical and simple formula by which to calculate resistance and current according to Ohm’s law. In 1843, English scientist Charles Wheatstone gave a Bakerian lecture publicizing his “..... More